'Colour, for Tomashi Jackson, is a tool for posing questions about how we see the world and for visually asserting the simultaneity of joy and struggle, of destruction and camaraderie—dualities that, of course, define us.
'She has long been interested in how the language of colour theory mirrors that of segregation; she has described how Josef Albers’s once-groundbreaking assertion that colour is relative, contextual, and responsive continues to be a useful metaphor for critiquing racism. As Jackson says, and her works—at once figurative and abstract, exuberant and riven with fury—demonstrate, “Colour is always changing, and, contrary to popular belief, it is not absolute.”'
Such words are especially poignant today, on
#Juneteenth .
In the summer issue of
@artforum ,
@mearasharma reviews Silent Alarm, Tomashi Jackson’s recent show at the gallery. Head to our bio to read in full.
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Image: Tomashi Jackson, After The Dance (Notting Hill Carnival 1976/LAPD raid on Project Blowed Leimert Park 1996), 2024. Courtesy the artist and Pilar Corrias, London
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